[Axiom-developer] Re: http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/MutualRecursion

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!

This one I believe is machine specific -- can I log in and reproduce?
(is this axiom-developer.org?)

In general, the easiest way for me to fix these things is to work with
a build atop GCL configured with --enable-debug.  If anyone has the
time to produce such a build somewhere and confirm that the error
persists, then point me to it, we can take care of this in short
order.  I realize that everyeon else's time is also limited, so if
this is not possible please so state.

Take care,

"Bill Page" <address@hidden> writes:

> On August 18, 2006 8:09 AM Ralf Hemmecke wrote:
> > 
> > http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/MutualRecursion
> > 
> > I think you need to remove the .erlib file from the harddisk. 
> > (Click on the first "+spad" of that site.)
> > 
> 
> The problem is not the 'xxx.erlib' directory as such but rather the
> failure to overwrite the existing 'xxx.NRLIB' directory. Something
> has changed in recent versions of Axiom, gcl or linux which prevents
> the lisp function delete-file from deleting the directory.
> 
> See details:
> 
> http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/SandBoxArrays
> 
> This is a known and annoying bug described here:
> 
> http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/302CannotRenameTheFileErlibToNRLIB
> 
> Tim believes the problem is in GCL but Camm says that aspect of GCL
> has not changed. We need to find a solution.
> 
> As a work-round to the problem perhaps we should modify Axiom to
> call
> 
>   (system "rm -r xxx.NRLIB")
> 
> before the rename?
> 
> Regards,
> Bill Page.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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